Ralph Seghers While working as a photographer worked with and got to know world leaders, jazz musicians, and most important the regular people of the world and their struggles that often go unrecorded or noticed in history. His writings bring a side to some of these stories that has been forgotten, or was simply never recorded. History tends to lose the intimate side of life, taking great events and grouping the story of many in to one, thus losing the human experience of history. These stories bring personal life into the historical events showing the intimate human side to what he witnessed and felt.